Question about setting column width in SQL*Plus using info retrieved w SQL

Good morning,
Is there a way to tell SQL*Plus to set the width of a column to the greatest width of the elements found in the column ? (as opposed to the default which is the width declared in the DDL)
In other words, I'd like to do something functionally equivalent to this:
COL <columname> format a[select max(length(<columnname>)) from <thetablethatcontainscolumname>]
I'm doing the above manually in two steps
1. select max(length(columnname)) from .....
2. col columnname format a[resultofstep1]
Is there a way of doing it in one step ?
Thank you for your help,
John.

Hi Munky,
>
you should consider whther you are using the correct tool for the job, SQLplus isn't exactly ideal for doing presentation layer stuff
>
I'm not really doing presentation stuff, I asked because it would be very convenient for everyday stuff. I commonly query the tables that I am going to deal withm just to have a look at the column names and a few values, something like:
select * from EMP where rownum <= 10; -- just to have a look at the table and some values
when the table contains a wide column then the display gets all messed up. It would be nice to have an option or a mechanism to tell SQL*Plus to automatically use the width of the widest value, instead of having to determine the value and then manually set the column.
thank you for your help, it's good to know that I didn't miss some trivial setting in the documentation that would do it ;)
John.

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